Philip L MILLER VOCAL MUSIC Guide to Long-Playing Records DISCOGRAPHY Opera Lied

by Philip L. MILLER, Philip MILLER

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img{max-width:100%} Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping. We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. For sale is The Guide to Long-Playing Records. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. Vocal Music by Philip L. Miller [xvi, 381, xxii ] A list with critical notes of the best recordings of vocal music: opera, oratorio, cantata, song Covers recordings from the beginning of sound recordings to 1955 Miller has sagely declined to let himself be confined to opera and Lieder. For a clear example of his superior penetration and helpfulness, compare his treatment of Berlioz's Lelio (p. 42) with that by Kolodin (p. 31, where even the name is misspelled). There has been a far greater decline in vocal than in instrumental prowess dur- ing the last quarter-century, but Mr. Miller has a much more optimistic out- look than his colleagues. Without any inferiority of discrimination he does full justice to the work of such fine singers as De los Angeles, Callas, Cuenod, Della Casa, Felbermayer, the lamented Ferrier, Fischer-Dieskau, Gedda, David Lloyd, Paul Matthen, Schwarzkopf, Souzay, and Warfield, and to the choral conducting of Safford Cape, Ferdinand Grossman, Hin- demith, Anthony Lewis, Felix de Nobel, David Randolph, Scherchen, and Woldike. After listening to hundreds of discs, he is still capable

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 1955
• Condition: Very Good

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